Fitbit founders launch new well-being app, where even your pets are included

The app that knows it all about your and your family’s health.

James Park and Eric Friedman, the creators of Fitbit, a company that offers wellness products and services, announced the launch of an application called Luffu focused on family health tracking.

The novelty of another health-tracking app is that it can be used not only to maintain an individual's well-being but also monitor the entire family’s health.

The reason for creating what the founders call “an intelligent family care system” is that more people are becoming proactive about their family’s health and are stepping into caregiver roles.

According to AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving, 63 million Americans are caregivers, which is an almost 50% increase since 2015.

Luffu serves as a way to track and manage all the household information related to family members' health. It can be used to track details such as one’s symptoms, health status, medication, lab results, doctor visits, and more.

The app not only lets you check on your parents or kids, but also your pets.

“Luffu gathers your family's information from anywhere you can think of and delivers insights and alerts you can act on,” states the company, adding that the app also alerts when there’s a case of missed medication or other changes in activity.

Users can add data to the app by connecting their wearables, apps, and medication portals, and add their notes through voice, text, or photo.

Since Luffu is powered by AI, it can also answer questions about one’s well-being, providing insights and “custom visualizations.”

For example, the person can ask the app about their dad’s blood pressure and receive an answer generated from previously logged information.

The application can serve as a hub for sharing information with spouses, parents, and caregivers, with the option to control what each person can see and update.

Users interested in trying the app, which is in a limited public beta, can join the company’s waitlist.

The company is also hinting at creating hardware products that would “complement the service,” according to PR Newswire, but it’s not yet known what kind of device it might be.

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